Governor Lachlan Macquarie served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. On a visit to the settlement of Hobart Town in Van Diemen's Land in November 1811, Macquarie was appalled at the ramshackle arrangement of the town and ordered the government surveyor James Meehan to survey a regular street layout. This survey determined the current centre of the city of Hobart today.